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Manual of English History Simplified; Or, Our Country's Story, by a Lady [J. Budge] Ed. by J.S. Laurie. Or, Our Country's Story, by a Lady [J. Budge]

Manual of English History Simplified; Or, Our Country's Story, by a Lady [J. Budge] Ed. by J.S. Laurie. Or, Our Country's Story, by a Lady [J. Budge]

Budge, Jane

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ISBN10: 1150682442
ISBN13: 9781150682445
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... SIMNEL, AS EARL OF WARWICK. 137 CHAPTER XXIV. Henry VII. (1486--1509). 1. Henry of Richmond, the first sovereign of the family of Tudor, was crowned king by the title of Henry VII. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV., and sister of Edward V. As she belonged to the House of York, and Henry to the House of Lancaster, this marriage united the Red and White Roses, and put an end for ever to the long contest between the two families. 2. Among the members of the House of York who were still living, was the young Earl of Warwick, son of the murdered Duke of Clarence, and Henry cruelly imprisoned him in the Tower, fearing that he might try to obtain the throne. Soon afterwards some persons tried to cause a rebellion by bringing forward a tradesman's son, named Simnel, a handsome youth, and pretending that he was the Earl of Warwick. 3. As the earl was at that very time living in the Tower, it was easy to prove that Simnel could not be he. The unhappy Warwick was, by Henry's command, taken on horseback through the streets of London, that people might be convinced that Simnel was an impostor, who, not disheartened by his failure in England, went over to Ireland, where the House of Lancaster was much disliked. 4. There he raised an army of eight thousand men, with which he landed in Lancashire, and marched to Stoke, in Nottinghamshire, where he met Henry the Seventh's troops, and an obstinate and bloody battle took place. Simnel was entirely routed, but Henry did not imprison him or put him to death. He made him a servant in the royal kitchen, and finding that he behaved well, after a time promoted him to take care of his falcons. 5. In 1493, another claimant to the throne appeared in Perkin Warbeck, who pretended to be the Duke of York, Edward the Fifth's ...

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